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the camera, I crept cautiously from bush to bush 

 towards a flock of some two hundred birds, which 

 were standing on and around a mud flat. But they 

 rose the instant I raised the camera from a bush. 

 Next, I approached some birds which were busy at 





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their nests. The result was the same ; the birds took 

 wing and went soaring into the blue until they were 

 no larger than Larks to our sight. From the branches 

 of a lone tree, near the centre, we obtained panoramic 

 views of the rookery. The tripod legs were lashed 

 to twisted boughs, and by imitating a limb-contor- 

 tionist I managed to focus and expose some plates. 

 After this we rested. It had been a busy afternoon, 

 packed with interest. But I was not perfectly satis- 



